I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

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

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.