We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.

In the energy field, you have the power to create synchronicity at any time. Feel the joy, surprise, and perfect fit of connecting with the very person who is part of igniting your desire.

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Rightly onward, pursue your dreams.

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.