I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.

I pray for humble spirit and a willing heart.

Far from a normal-functioning relationship, but normal has never been our thing.

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.