[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?

As perfume to the flower so is kindness to speech.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

The less you need, the more you attract.