Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

Truth is the daughter of time.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

If I'm 40 years old and wearing a 30 waist, that's pretty good.

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.