Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

I'm a painter in sound.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop - how diehard New Yorkers are for their team. Me being a New Yorker, I just had to show my love for the city as well as my love for the New York Giants.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow it loses today.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Heavy metal is a universal energy it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

With tractors, you just don't get the feel of tilling that land. So when planting season comes around, I use a hoe. To grow one useful whore, that's the motto of my pimp farm.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.