He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested.

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens to be that, that's what it happens to be.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.