Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.

... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

Human beings can handle much terrible circumstances in life. And that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.--Here Tomorrow

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

Heaven and the spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

I like boots that are comfortable. Better for fit and touch as well.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.