You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

I really really wanna see Lenny Kravitz 'cause I wanna be his rockchick!

When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.