The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one