Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

We cannot just live any how.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it