grievance does not make for great art.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.