The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I don’t believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing—nothing exists for me.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.