It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

If i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare.

You can always live extraordinary live.You are born to reach your full potential.The only limit is yourself.

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

Pray for one another.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.