Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

The most essential point is lowliness.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

The powers that be in entertainment are really threatening anybody that shows up at the [Donald] Trump inauguration is gonna have trouble getting a job. They're ticked off.

Prayer is like money - it has no smell.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.