Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.