Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.

She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.

I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.

If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.

While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.

He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.

Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.

It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.