I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

John Malkovich

Those who are lighthearted remind me of death.

Leo Tolstoy

I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me. I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me. And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows And I love the garden rose.

Becky Stark

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.

William Hazlitt

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Edward Rowland Sill

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

William Lloyd

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Samuel Paterson

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Elizabeth Edwards