Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.

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.

It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Never touch another man's button.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

I have so much of you in my heart.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.