Humor is my default mode.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

The great way to live life is to love.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment.

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?