A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

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.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

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

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.