Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

If you're alive, you're creative.

We are always - always- in choice.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Every genuine confession humbles the soul. When it takes the form of thanksgiving, it teaches the soul that it has been delivered by the grace of God.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.