The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

The living are just the dead on holiday

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.