Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

With 'Timbiriche,' I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.