And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

Life without discipline is just like a body without a backbone.

With the strength of God, we shall overcome every struggle.

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

To be happy, you need to dothe right thing for you, even when it feels like thehardest thing in the world.

External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.