The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.

The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.

The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.