Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

When there faith, the world is balanced.

I carry your kindness wherever I go. That way your love touches far more than just me.

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, lets be honest!

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.