"I don’t want to be rich. I want to be happy."

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere."

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."