A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

What a glorious God?

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

Friendship is never forgettable in your whole life. It is always sweet like chocolate but never bitter like Neem.