This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something and you don't quite know what it is.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.