Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

Right reason is stronger than force.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.