Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.

There is no greater power than the power of love

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

I can't play a slave.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.