Every story is us

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains, drinking poison, and now quietly choosing annihilation.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

A boy has other people do the talking for him

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

I've learned that almost anyone will help if you ask for it.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.