You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover….

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

I don't understand what you're still doing here." She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away. "No!" He pulled her back. "Don't leave. ….

I want to kiss you one more time before I die..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Nobody acts purely selfishly..

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much..

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go..

Calamus fortior gladio..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

L.A.'s always been good to me..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..