There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

She didn't change her priorities, she just changed her source of entertainment.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist

Culture makes all men gentle.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

Plots are for dead people.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.