Love is possession, a sort of vanity.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

You don't become a success by breaking the rules. You don't become a success by obeying the rules. You become a success by inventing the rules.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

After this is over, I want a shower in a really big bathroom.""I'll get us the penthouse.""What makes you think you'll be sharing it with me?""I live in hope.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.