Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.