An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.