For the living, death is thievery.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

gurl, if you were a flower I will plant you in heart, watering you with my blood and cover you with my body.

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.