In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.