I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them.

A chain grows weaker with each new link.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.