It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.