Hatred - The anger of the weak.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

Music is another planet.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.

What you know is what you share

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.