I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

If it had been a heart attack, the new

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Good morning, people of the U.N.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.