I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Winners never quit, quitters never win.

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.