Let your performance do the thinking.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Baby is baby.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

There are no healing agents.

Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.