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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

It's Friday morning mankind!Good vibe, Don't Frown and let the monster see you smile!

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.