Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep talking about something else.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.