You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.

For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.

Money is just another word for power.

You've got to do things that promote what's important.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.