It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

Truth is always a turning point.

Your personal identity very much depends on the experience of the present moment and as the experience changes, your identity too change with it.

A smile is an antidote for stress.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.