I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

By Sharing you don't become Poor . . . you become Rich. For the more you Share, the more shall you Receive.

A domesticated man makes my lady parts beep!

She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.