It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success.

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.