the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

There are no undecideds. There are only people that decided to be undecided.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant.

Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.