I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

If I could bottle the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a pill, it would become a blockbuster drug.

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

Human-nature will not change.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.