She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.

If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

Pizza! Hockey! Destroy!" -Cal