I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Stay present. You'll always have time to worry later on if you want to.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.