People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.