You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.