Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

I drink for the thirst to come.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven, The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

Finding faults is for those with tired minds.