My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The fall takes no time and forever.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?

If you don’t leave your job, your job will leave you someday

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.