An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

Who is watching the Watchers?

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

I've always had a talent for building businesses - and, importantly, for creating jobs. That's a talent America desperately needs.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.