There is only "now". The better we make now the better our past and future "nows" will be.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.