But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

What you see, isn't always what you get

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.