To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.

For me, off the field, cartoons are something that can ease my mind and get me back into having fun and just relaxing.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.