Survival is triumph enough.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

Do not promote what you can't explain, simplify, and prove early.

Work hard for what you want in life.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)