If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.