But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!