The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

We like something because someone else liked it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up.

In the middle of the night, if you have decided to do something good for the world, don't wait for the morning to come!

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!