Let living and love, be one.

The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

[S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.