If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

It is the spur of ignorance the consciousness of not understanding and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

Yeah, I’ll always be your friend. No matter what you love.

Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.