The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Nothing good ever comes out of hurry and frustration, only misery.

You kill one, there was another in his place, and what's worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end.

Diet is really important, and I think vitamins are really important, also.

I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

I hate you.” “I know,” he whispered. “Kiss me.” He didn’t hesitate.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.