You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood. --Raphael Sinclair

Rest in peace? Please, God, no. Haunt me, Sofia. You said you'd haunt me.

The terrible things that happen to us, ” Tessa said slowly. “What wedo with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.

THIS IS A COMPLIMENT?You're incrediburgableshe saidwhich is to sayYou're a little like incrediblebut a lot more like ahamburger.

Scientists are those who change facts

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.