the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.