Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

...now open your mind by closing your eyessee the unseen world within you which liesFrom the poem 'The Unseen World

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......!

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.