Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Every day is a new day and every sunrise brings hope to the hopeless”.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.