The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.