No amount of promises can guarantee love

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

I want to someday be in the same position as John Elway, Joe Montana and Steve Young.