Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

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.

We're deaf men working as musicians

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.