Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

God never tires of forgiving us.

Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.