A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

Because we can't tell others about our accomplishments if we don't know them ourselves.

Better be happy than wise.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.