I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
“Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”