Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

Lasher, ’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.

It's all right if people think we are idiots.It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.It's all right if we open the coffin and climb in.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

With Twitter people oddly feel accountable for what they write. When someone is unkind, the community rallies like you wouldn't believe to shut it down.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.