Anger makes people stupid.

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.

Life itself is the proper binge.

To attract all the beauty of life, spread the fragrance of happiness like a dancing flower of peace.

The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from life you become.

When I look at you, you know what I see?"I met her gaze, finding it suddenly hard to breathe."I see the guy who saw me when no one else did, " she said. "That's what matters to me. That's who you are.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.