I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

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

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.