There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like that.

There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.