If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.