Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.