Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

Hell was full so i came BACK .......

Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.