Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!