Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

There is always hope for the living.Keep hope alive.Never give in to fear.

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.