Being reliable is something. Being good.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.