You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.