My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

Every second and minute that you are not sleeping should be converted, investing your life and your time into doing that thing that you were born to do.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.