A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

...friendship is something you do.

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.