Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.