I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind, " Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Every morning the sun rises to fill your life with magnificent colors and joyful nights.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

I choose to express myself.

And anyway, life's too short.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition