The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

Fear is the greatest predator you encounter on your journey to greatness.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.