If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

He sure put things into words good.

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

I'm a good judge of my own work.