Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

A gentle spirit, a kind heart.

...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

Use career to develop yourself. Have fun with it. Dedicate your activities and your career, to eternity, and to enlightenment.

The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.