As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Anything creative requires a bit of acting, and filling in blanks with imagination.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.

Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me, for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Our conduct will never change God's character.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything since the end of World War II.

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Life is a mission, not a career.