Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

For what is more lovable than failure?

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

If you want to succeed, make it a study first then practice it and finally live it daily.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

I have drunken deep of joy And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?