Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Dragons loved treasure, that was not a myth about his kind, and Rhea was the greatest treasure of all.

In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.

Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.