Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?""Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.