I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Only true rebelliousness can change the world for the better. Be rebellious.

A successful business requires one simple thing: PASSION.

If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are.

I love hard and still haven’t a clue what it feels like…

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

USC is the National Champion like Al Gore is the President of the United States.

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything.