I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Survival is triumph enough.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Marriages are made in heaven. When Allah made a creature, He also made the creature's mate

He didn’t fold his arms around her, and he didn’t hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A week ago, he would’ve sank his fangs into her flesh without a second thought. But now? Muriah had lured him into her world, into her reality, not as a god, but as a partner, a man.

Letting go is easy. All you do is realize how crazy it is to live in the fantasy land of your mind at the expense of missing real opportunities in reality.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.