You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.
I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.
I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... So now I have to move.
One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.
History is a stern judge.
I've had an unhappy life, thank god.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
A friend will wipe away sweat but not blood.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Silence was never written down.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
