Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

At 18 I was attracted to bad boys.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.