Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.