Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

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

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky