No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.