Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Life experiences shared with a friend will turn into memories to be enjoyed.

A present is not the source of buying someone's love but its a source of showing how much u love and apriciate that particular person

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

I'm not going to wait on anybody to put out music or a visual. Everything I will do is on my own. I'm not waiting on anyone.

Delay always breeds danger.