I held her like tomorrow would not come. It stitched me, if only for a second...

If this is a dream, may we never wake up!

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

I'm everything that you're not.

Don't be afraid! Hold my hand and let's jump off that cliff together.

I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.

Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.

Once upon a time, I wish I had sneezed. The end.

Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later.

A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. (“I wonder what went wrong.” )

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.