My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The law is reason, free from passion.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

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

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Love is a state of being.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

In the real world, children love me.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Lena Waithe won an Emmy for writing while starring on the Netflix show ‚Master of None,‘ but it might be more accurate to call her a Master of Everything.

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Love is only one of many passions.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.