Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.