A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.

I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.