A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.