Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.

You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.