Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance.

Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.