“I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.”

“Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.”

“I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don't know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...”

“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”

“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”