I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.

Hatred is as much an attachment as desire. Love liberates.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Life too near paralyses art.