Marilyn Monroe Quotes

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I just follow my heart.

The body says what words cannot.

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.