Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

One writes not by will but by surrender.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare