My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
If you rise too early, the dew will wet you.
Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
His big effort has been on sentencing but we're talking about prison reform.
I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
Ghosts exist.
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.
That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
