If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

Nobody sits alone accompanied only by a stewing ambition that won't see fruit for years. Ambition is something you turn into publicity before there's anything to publicize.

I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

We become what we think. If you have a negative thinking, stop thinking.

I will toil under sun for what I want.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.