Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.

Memories shared change. You can add what you learned to the memory and it becomes easier to live with or benefit by.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.