"All of us know, whether we say it or not, that life is a battle."

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."

"Everybody's got to love somebody. And if you can't love the one you want, you love the one you got."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"I think the only way to be a writer is to be a human being."