There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Single life is so overrated.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.