Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.