"I'm not a pessimist. I'm an optimist who's been disappointed a few times."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic."

"I'm not a novelist. I'm a short story writer. I'm a poet. I'm a playwright. I'm a journalist. I'm a hack."