A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... It is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours.

Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day, " and it was only a small exaggeration.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.