西园公子名无忌，南国佳人号莫愁。 — 忆昔 [唐] 韦庄 昔年曾向五陵游，子夜歌清月满楼。 银烛树前长似昼，露桃华里不知秋。 西园公子名无忌，南国佳人号莫愁。 今日乱离俱是梦，夕阳唯见水东流。

叶下斜阳照水，卷轻浪、沉沉千里。

丈夫生世会几时，安能蹀躞垂羽翼？

亲朋无一字，老病有孤舟。

但屈指西风几时来，又不道、流年暗中偷换。

肠已断，泪难收。相思重上小红楼。

怕人寻问， 咽泪装欢。 瞒， 瞒， 瞒！

薄悻不来门半掩， 斜阳， 负你残春泪几行。

数声风笛离亭晚，君向潇湘我向秦。

欢笑情如旧，萧疏鬓已斑。

新妆宜面下朱楼，深锁春光一院愁。

落日松风起，还家草露晞。

菩提只向心觅，何劳向外求玄？

翠袖低垂笼玉笋，红裙斜曳露金莲。

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

I see my path but I dont know where it leads. Not knowing where Im going is what inspires me to travel it.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I really want to interview Larry David.

I'm in love with London. English boys are great. I completely fell in love with it over there.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

I wasn't born a superstar.

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.