I'm more famous now than when I was famous..

Love the questions, themselves..

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

No one survives life..

I could only destroy to build..

I wouldn't go back and change anything..

"Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.".

Words are just words..

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

The things which must be must be for the best..

I have always been afraid of banks..

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

He who would travel happy must travel lite..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

You can put anything into words, except your own life..

A woman is more than the sum of her parts..

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read..

Everyone is either happy or dead..

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like..