Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions.

How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime.

I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

I play video games, dude!

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.