But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

Cesto smo zaglavljeni izmedju onoga sto jesmo i onoga sto zelimo da budemo.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again