In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

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

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.