College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.