The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow.

And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school, And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in boxesAnd they come out all the same.

You can't applaud a referee.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

You are what exists before all stories.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

I have never let gender get in my way.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television