"He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and partly why they leave."
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create."
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence."