For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I don't know that I could really define love. I can't . . . again, it's like trying to define what this creative force is. It's beyond my ability to really define. If I can define it, then it's not it. We're right back to that thing again.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.