You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
• I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
• No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
• Death is just life's next big adventure.
• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.