The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation