And then the days came when I was alone.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.

Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.