"Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements."

“If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.”

“Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.”

“Communication is the key to successful relationships.”

“I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.”

Source : "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

“In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.”

“Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.”

“As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.”

Source : John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan (1994). “On writers and writing”, Addison-Wesley Longman

“Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.”