To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.
When a thing bores you, do not do it.
For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.