I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.

when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.