Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

When you slowly and gently get lost in love, you become infinite.

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.