“we are all bitched from the start”

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.”

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”

“We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.”

“You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.”

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”

“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”