A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.

life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.

She refused to know love again. The thought of another heartbreak was far too much for her to bear.

Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...

In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.

Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you.

A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth keeping.

Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish.

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

You promised me one night. I want you next to me tonight. We have the rest of our lives to be apart.

Words are the money of fools.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.