There was the amount of time you'd known someone and then there was the way you'd spent that time.

Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.

Peace like charity begins at home.

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

My work speaks for itself.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.