With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.