Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

He gives me the stare that only men can do. The mouth tightening exasperation stare.

The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.

I would kill to be on Dexter, and I would double kill to be on True Blood. I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?