Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.

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.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Anyone can have an off decade.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

I was unbelievably lucky.