Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Every hour has its end.