We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

I can't resist that's why I exist to take you there kissed

Ink is the transcript of thought.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

Trust me when I say: Your commitment to love is crucial in the awakening of the world.

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.