The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.