No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

Nothing is new except arrangement.