A girl is a soul at sunrise.

Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

When we look at the budget, the budget is bad to a large extent because we have people that have no idea as to what to do and how to buy.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

The future is a monotonous instrument

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.