I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan

Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.