I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
