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The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.

In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses

I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.