Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives

Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist!

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

I'm not fond of ideologies. I don't like it when people have answers before they know the question.

Every moment you are different because you are not-- and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.

I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to assist me.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.