Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

Tortured for the Republic.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

Humour is completed by an audience.