Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.