Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

If we repeal Obamacare, it's the Wild West, and then you're gonna see the traditional manner and behavior of Washington kick into gear and start trying to craft something.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.