All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

There is no fifth destination.

The romantic within us is a harbinger of our deepest desires.

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Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

I wish I could hold you, " she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.