Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

Secrets are what can ease or crush a soul, mend or destroy a heart, and rescue or murder a life.

Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!