What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

From the end spring new beginnings.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?