Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

stay hungry stay foolish

I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.