Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.