It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.

My nine-month journey through this room I would describe as one of trauma, rage and deceit, all topped off with a splash of human bonding.

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

You cant censor peoples dreams.

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.