Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

Practice hard, Train hard, work hard and Play harder.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

I left United, but my Heart didn't

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them...

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.