Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

You don’t get off easy, you just get to finish faster!

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.