My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.