One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

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

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

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

No amount of promises can guarantee love