Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Hollywood is a mirage factory.

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.