“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”

“I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.”

“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.”