The greater the pain, the greater the fun.

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.

Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.

Everything is going to change. We just need to see how those changes are going to play out, for better or worse.

There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

Only stupid questions create wealth.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.