There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.