“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”

“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”

“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links t...”