Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

The most important job in life is to find out the purpose of your life, and go for it wholeheartedly.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.