We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.

I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.