I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

With publicity comes humiliation.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

Happiness changes the way you see the world.

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.

Art can only be taught by artists.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.