If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Surviving means being born over and over.

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