I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

Lust is like a robin attacking his reflection in a pane of glass again and again.

Much of our lives are wasted by finding reality, even though we live in unstable nature and with many irrational laws.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.