Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

People change and forget to tell each other.