You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.