Passion

"If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there."

"‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."

"When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know."