“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”

“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”

“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”

“In the end, everything is a gag.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”