hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.