There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

I know your eyes in the morning sunI feel you touch me in the pouring rainAnd the moment that you wander far from meI wanna feel you in my arms again

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Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.