Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Work is the only device I know of.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.