Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.