But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.