I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

You don’t need to require a woman to be what you want her to be

If youth knew if age could.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

Sadness of love without release.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

I never give a f-ck about a hater; got money on my radar.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.