I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.

God, send me an angel from the heavens above. Send me an angel to heal my broken heart from being in love, 'cause all I do is cry. God, send me an angel to wipe the tears from my eyes.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

I’m no longer human and there is no past.’ (Acheron's litany)

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping