Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

You meet someone who changes your world and when they leave you’re left as a stranger in the world. You don’t even know yourself. - Keaira

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends