-
Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.
-
When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.
-
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!
-
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.
-
Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.
-
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
-
Men respect standards- get some!
-
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!
-
I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.
-
No price is too great to pay for inner peace.
