Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

My word stinkof blood and goreof sleepless nightsof invisible demonsof razors and knivesof slashed wristsMy words - they stink.

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.