Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

I love today, it is a sacred time.

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart."J.L. Bond

Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.

My father had very little formal education.

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.