Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.