Elvis ate America before America ate him.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

You only know you love her when you let her go.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Give as few orders as possible, " his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.