If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

...Mrs. Percy understood that staying beautiful all day long is the most important aspect of being married...

Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket? ~Bumper sticker~

I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!

There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.