The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Learn how to control your emotions and don't let them control you.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams

It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.