The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Home isn't just a trailer or four walls and a roof, home is the people that you love.

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.

The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.