"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."

"I left Gilda's party, and it was raining, and I had no coat. I was wearing a dinner jacket, and I was soaked. I walked home, and I was singing."

"I wish I could have found another way to live, but I couldn't. I had to write."

"Forgive me for my grandiosity, and for my occasional bursts of self-pity."