Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

I'd give you my heart, but you'd just give it back, so I'll give you my words instead.

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.