People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.