Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles

If you aim upward, you will at shoot higher things (future prospects). If you aim downwards, you may shoot your feet (foundation).

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.