I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

The term 'first-love' exists because there always more to count ahead, as pure as the previous one, as true as the one that touched your soul lately.

A story can only be contained in a book.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.