Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

I essentially write for myself.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.