There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.

Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

I weep fer the livin. I weep fer the dead. I weep fer the yet to be born.

Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other.

The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.

A man is known by the company he keeps not by the company he works.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

A man can get killed in there.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.