Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

Think like a man of action act like a man of thought.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

Life consists of two days: one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

It is always about you for me.