To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

What is luck but something made to run out.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

Are you going to hand your children over to Big Food, Big Med and Big Pharma? That journey begins with the choice to bottle feed, then it's all down hill from there.

Character and Plot...Character and PlotSome writers have it and some do notThis I'll tell you BrotherYou can't have one without the other

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.