I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens by surprise.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.