Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

I love Gwen Stefani's style, I think she's dope.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.