I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

You'll be ready for this change - when you're ready – not a moment before. Don't beat yourself up if you're not ready.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.

Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.