You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

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

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.