Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

Life is a journey. We hear it often. Do we care about the intermediate destinations? No, we are sleeping and dreaming. If this is true, how can we pursue life as our journey?

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.