To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

a man only knows what he's experienced

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. “He’s a looker.”“I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.