If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.