I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.

Education is the transportation of the mind.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Make the metronome your friend, not your enemy.