The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.