We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.