I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

Good talent needs a showcase to prove its worth.There are many cases across the world across arts where good and talented artists have disappeared bcz no one saw them.

Act and God will act.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.