You can't revise a blank page.

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.

Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.