If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

God is a name we give to love.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.

God is with us, and His power is around us.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.