Music is the brandy of the damned.
I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.