"I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free."

“roads were made for journeys not destinations”

“When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.”

Source : "Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: 'I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor'". Interview with Linda Leseman, www.laweekly.com. October 03, 2011.

“Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.”

“The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.”

“The influence of a vital being vitalizes.”

“Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.”

“I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I want to make sure everything has my 100%.”