It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

How can I forget there's just one life & so much to do. Let me choose the best things to do & start to do.

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand.

Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.