I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.