Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

I love fighting. One thing that is the key to that is I always love training. I love to. And I never drink before, no alcohol in my life, no smoke, nothing. I love training.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.