"The best advice I ever got was, 'Don't be afraid to be yourself.'"

"I was never a big fan of the '60s. I was always a little bit ahead of them."

"To understand the man, you have to understand what he wanted. And what he wanted was always the same: to be a writer."

"The greatest joy you can have is to know that you're loved."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."