Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.