You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.

Outside is like a house, under house understand it like hell there isn't any order... I still aks my self how people like Monk survive out there??

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.