I heard words and words full of holes aching.

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 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.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life.

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.

To me, the harmonica is like a voice.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.