Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?.

We were searching for ourselves in each other..

Washington's a cesspool of money..

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits..

Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute..

I've never really looked back..

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

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me..

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes..

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more..

My life now could not be better..

Be fruitful, and multiply..

Do not disturb. Already there..

You are either free or not free.

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak..

I'd like to levitate..

I wouldn't go back and change anything..

I don't call myself a writer..

Those who cannot begin do not finish..

Everybody comes from somewhere..