To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt - but you're going to be fine.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.