Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care..

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless….

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life..

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old te….

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every ti….

When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Associat….

Being in love is the only transcendent experience..

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much mo….

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives..

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for t….

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed bu….

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun..

Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece….

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life..

I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to….

Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” ….

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn shor….

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of o….

I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics..

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.