The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.

Oh for God's sake, ' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.