Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Friendship is a weird sort of thing when you think about it.

Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth.

Distance starts in hearts, confirms in mind & actions from tongue....

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.