I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

Take responsibility for the city

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Distance starts in hearts, confirms in mind & actions from tongue....

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.