Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.