How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won’t break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
One can’t be free without action.
When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.
Shoes off in the whale! And don’t try and make a break for the anus.
Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles and the kinkiest fans!
Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit.
From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
You don’t hurry a thinker, and you don’t talk to him when he’s thinking. It’s just inconsiderate.
An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren’t any. I looked around for one but couldn’t find anything. So it’s a wide-open field.
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.