Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.