I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

You can actually eat yourself into a better mood and get rid of depressive thoughts and melancholy.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.