It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they're ratified into law.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

Let your mind dance with me. Let it be, just for a moment, stress free.

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

Fairy-tales are nice.