I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?