I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

They tell us, love, that eternity awaits.

In order to discover who you are within, you need to attune your visionary world deep in your sub-conscience to the outward world and live it.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.