I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.