In My Dreams I Am Not Crippled.

There Is No Other Occupation In The World That So Closely Resembled Enslavement As The Career Of A Film Star.

Love Is A Publicity Stunt, And Making Love, After The First Curious Raptures, Is Only Another Petulant Way To Pass The Time Waiting For The Studio To Call.

Writing Is 1 Percent Inspiration, And 99 Percent Elimination.

For Two Extraordinary Years I Have Been Working On It - Learning To Write - But Mostly Learning How To Tell The Truth. At First It Is Quite Impossible. You Make Yourself Better Than Anybody, Then Worse Than Anybody, And When You Finally Come To See You Are "like" Everybody - That Is The Bitterest Blow Of All To The Ego. But In The End It Is Only The Truth, No Matter How Ugly Or Shameful, That Is Right, That Fits Together, That Makes Real People, And Strangely Enough - Beauty.

If I Ever Bore You, It'll Be With A Knife.