"The worst thing in the world is to be a woman. It is an awful thing to be a woman, especially if you are beautiful."

"I have a theory that it is impossible to be a good writer and a good person."

"I felt my life start to unravel, like a sweater I'd been knitting all my life, now coming undone stitch by stitch."

"I couldn't be a man. I couldn't be a woman. I couldn't be anything."

"I am a genius of an artist; I have a genius for living."