All of my books come from pain.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

The level of consciousness defines the level of understanding and awareness.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow

I knew, really knew, I would never die with my song unsung.

I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays.

It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Use words that soak up life.