Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.

We are all protagonists, each and every one of us.

Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

Money is a kind of poetry.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.