I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.

Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Time passes…..and a billion lives are affected in ways we’ll never know.

To broaden your thinking, you have to expand the scope of your mind and imagination

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Love is like fire. Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?