Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

We, human beings, are strong because we are capable of change .

Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.