If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.