People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.