Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.

I need a man with a good sense of humor and a kind heart.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.