I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.

Believe is the gateway to great treasures.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

Life is our dictionary.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.