Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...

Love is a contradiction

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.