Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

Be yourself, you're already fully equipped to succeed at that.

'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them they are always consulting Dr Google.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.