A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

May God gives you power to accomplish all the great things you were destiny for.

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.

... Join me with my rumination of the human youwarned me of."-Abanir to Rabel

Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

All great acheivements require time.

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.