When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can't I live inside my dream?

You shouldn't ask for forgiveness. Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.

Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.

When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!

Happiness is a drug, and only few know how to take it properly.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.