Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.