That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

you will never know how valuable a thing or a person is...until its not with you anymore, then you'll regret...its not my fault.its urs..

Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.