Madeline knew how that was. So many people had ideas of what you should and shouldn't do, but in the end you had to decide for yourself.

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.