Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.