People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

Not everyone man is a lover, not every love is the love.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.