Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round, While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

You must accept something before you can change it.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.