Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

The despairing soul is a rebel.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.