Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is

When you realize that just being yourself is okay, that’s when you’ll be able to see yourself.

Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.