Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.