He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.

Just as the brain has its own way of operating, the ears another, the eyes yet another, and the body, fingers and toes yet another means, our intuition can be further divided into separate skills.

Many people do not fall in love

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.