Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I’m told, into God.” - Zorba.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

Luck is blind, they say. It can’t see where it’s going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful before, but it just tastes sour after.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.