But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.