Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn’t you rather skip reality?

Ancient literature is a rich history.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

The great style icons are tomboys

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.