Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.

Jesse reached into a bottom drawer and brought out a bottle of... oh, hey, single-malt scotch. Some SOFs did know how to live.

A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

What you know not now you will know hereafter.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.