To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.