No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Error is worse than ignorance.

Wild flowers grow where they will.

As long as she wants me, I’m here.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.