I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy

It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.