Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.

Value supported family and friends.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.