[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Life is Beautiful, it is you who want to Enjoy or Cry.Enjoy = Win, Cry = Loose.

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.