Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
I don't write music for sissy ears.
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.
You need fear to create, to live.