Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

But how will I know it's my destiny?' 'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.