Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.

Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

Broken love is the most dangerous love. It will slice you open with every touch.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

Its tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.