Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

I love being a star more than life itself.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.