I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

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