I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Deep rivers run quiet.