What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here, ' on the last wall of the universe.

He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.