Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing.

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?