Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.