What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

If a restaurant fumbles once I don't have to hold it against them, anyone can have a bad night.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.