I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child, " I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

In every given circumstance, only your repeated interpretations of it will determine whether it breaks you or makes you.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

Clean plates don't lie.

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

But listen up Alex Rider.

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.