In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

Simplicity is the ultimate beauty of life.

Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.