Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Bad is the new good - you've got my permission to stick that on one of your t-shirts.

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses the other is the whispering of the higher self.

If you would be a reader read if a writer write.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.