We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart, ' is really bad advice.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a racist.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

I have no guitar technique.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.