If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion.

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 lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

When you hate the thing that you're working on, that's when you question it.

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.