Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Breathless living is anything but the abundant life. The pace at which we live is not sustainable.

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

If you drink alcohol with your friends, then friends will become your enemies. If you drink alcohol with your enemies, then your enemies will become animals.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.