We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.