All things truly wicked start from innocence.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.

The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Never confuse movement with action.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.