Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

Will an hour be enough?” An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

One truth, many paths.

Boys are cute, but food is cuter

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty