She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

I'm not trying to be sexy or cute. I'm just being myself.

创作的行为是一种反抗的行为。

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. What costs money are the unquality things -- all the actions that involve not doing jobs right the first time.

The function of the writer is to disturb the sleep of the world.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."