The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

We're all working with one power, one law, it's Attraction

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!