An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Life is too short to enjoy all the beauties of life.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien.]

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.