While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter. . . with alliteration, no less!
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
. . . it's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
. . . The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
That's it. Love makes us all strong.
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.