The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Music, brings the soul alive.Music promotes wellness and sound mind.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.