When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.