Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

Despite wearing a Rolex, I have no time.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Whoever desires is always poor.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.