People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.