Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.