The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.

Even bullies need love.

You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

Always say how you feel because you never know if you'll get the chance again.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.