Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world..

When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary ….

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?.

...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and “We’ve got to be together in this thing” when you meant the very opposite ... and then you we….

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life..

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone..

He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating t….

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness..

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort..

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy..

He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that d….

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around..

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying..

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love..

Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with….

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love..

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases..

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city an….

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shado….