"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."

"An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory."

"When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive."

"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."

"I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."

"No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author!"

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"The key to your universe is that you can choose."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations."

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?"

"It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love."