We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night, ' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.

Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")

There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

The results are in great need greater ambition.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.