Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.

Only a rose would make a man turn the shade of his desire.

As I drifted off to sleep, I could hear him breathing, and that definitely helped me relax.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?