A tree without roots will fall over, whereas a tree with roots eventually becomes part of a forest..

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb ma….

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All tha….

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

I will remain on the throne until I fall off..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a….

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He w….

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them..

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one..

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fa….

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..