In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart.

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

The key is: never fold.

But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

Set your goal and keep moving forward.

God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.

I love working with kids; I find hope in them.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.