Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Deepen your knowledge about your role in the society

...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.