An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.