Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.