I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.

And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.

Are you any good at it?""Pulling idiots out of the snow? I'm the best.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!