To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Character is mental and moral qualities distinctive to every individual, but it is constant in those who have courage to make a commitment and live with it.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate.