I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.