Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.