Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.