Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying and the landing is like a glimpse of the divine.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Opportunities increase as they are taken.