Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

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

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.