She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

I've won Satan's lottery.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.

Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily."No.""Elvis?""I told you, it's supernatural.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Every opportunity has challenges and when you overcome it, it turns to rewards.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.