Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.