thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or j….

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return..

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me..

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego..

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill..

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer..

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter..

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation..

I just don't seem to be capable of believing in evil as some separate, distinct power within itself. I guess I'm just not a Southern Baptist or a Fun….

If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing….

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness..

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I woul….

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to thin….

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done..

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer..

Be careful of things like alcohol and drugs..

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process..

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die..

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good..

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and you….