I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.", Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

Be strong in soul.

Giving is sharing.

While a man desires a woman, His mind is boundAs closely as a calf to its mother.As you would pluck an autumn lily, Pluck the arrow of desire.

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.