I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

It's all about having fun and feeling good!

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

I think of the horizon at midnight, the sky and sea blurring together.

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.