It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.