Love is only one of many passions.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I mean, families are weird.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.