Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.