“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”

“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do”

“I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.”

“I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.”

“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”

“Freelancing is tough. It can be very difficult, in fact. It can wear people down, making them lose sight of what they used to love because they have to do everything else just to get by.”