The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.'

William S. Burroughs

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Cameron Conaway

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

William Safire

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Carl Lewis

There is nothing greater than love; it is stronger than any evil, any darkness. Show me the way, Jesus!Love is the answer. If we love one another, then we need not fear anything else. Love is everything.

Cecilia Galante

His (Cardinal ) own opinion was his law

William Shakespeare

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

Beverly Cleary

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Christopher Hitchens

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Russel H. Conwell

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Tom Waits