would you dare to love me?

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.