Try to let what is unfair teach you.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.