Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

Pitching is a priority.