Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.