One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don't go for sweet and trite food.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.