Looking forward is the future, standing where you are is the present. looking back is the past. A memory is a piece of the past snipped and played as a short movie or story.

She has a idiosyncrasy of being honest...I like that.

Allow me to remove my headphones to listen to your bullshit.

I am surely a creature. For what human has two hearts? But I have two hearts— one is always broken

When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.