I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.