There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

Always be civil, but with a plan to neutralise everyone in the room.

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.