Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

When a window closes another one opens

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.