Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.