Look at this tangle of thorns.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~

Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you.

When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.

Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.

Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.