Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off..

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

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.

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

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

Nothing good comes out of depression..

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

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

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, ….

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

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

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

I am a writer, not a transcriber..