At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.