On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind! There was something so special about that place...even your emotions had an echo...and so much space!

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

Perfect was my only option.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

Sweet pea?'" Alec said. "I was just trying it out." Alec shook his head. "No." Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

I don't really like the limelight.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.