A sword held in vengeance only leads to grief.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.