The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.

You possess great strength, great spirit and great soul.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?