It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.