Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.