Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Death was easy. Life was complicated.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

Missing someone is like hearing a name sung quietly from somewhere behind you. Even after you know no one is there, you keep looking back.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.