In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.