Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

I never could get a proper job.