Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to us response to any situation.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.