There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.