The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you?

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.