“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.”

“Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.”

“I love being not cool.”

“I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.”

“I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.”

“Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. ...”

“It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.”

“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”