A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.

You can never become great living the life of a time waster.

If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.