Everything seems simple until you think about it.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.