The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

Perception is subjective.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.