A LISTING OF QUOTES I LIKE

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” -KURT VONNEGUT

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where once we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws.” -JIM MORRISON

“I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” -MARILYN MONROE

“The Bible’s blind, the Torah’s deaf, the Koran is mute. If you burnt them all together you’d get close to the truth. Still, they’re pouring over Sankrit under ivy league moons, as shadows lengthen in the sun.” -BRIGHT EYES

“We cry in art. We sing with life.” -LARRY RIVERS and FRANK O’HARE

“Listen to the color of your dreams.” -JOHN LENNON

“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.” -ANONYMOUS

“These are the days that must happen to you.” -WALT WHITMAN

“Freedom has a scent, like the top of a newborn baby’s head.” -U2

“You must stay drunk on writing, so reality cannot destroy you.” -RAY BRADBURY

“Hey man, when I write, I’m the hero,” -CHARLES BUKOWSKI, in response to a filmmaker saying that he lied about him in his story.

“Writing is a struggle against silence.” -CARLOS FUENTES