Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.