You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

We only have one life to live. We should reach for the best it has to offer before it evaporates from our grasp.

It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Single by choice, just not my choice.

People enjoy media and games in different ways - some people enjoy something that they can take seriously and invest themselves in. That's something we're comfortable with.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.