You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another."pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

It's always a good day when I get to work with Jim Belushi, who I adore.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.