When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.
Determination gets you a long way.
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
I can't wait to get off the bus and. . . go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it. . . I thank God I can make a living doing it.