And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

I am nobody but myself.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.