Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Don't they understand what fiction is?

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

Gratitude goes beyond saying ‘thank you’. Feelings complete the blessing

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

To smile sincerely is acceptable after making mistakes – that is the best way to feel cheerful and repeat the same mistakes.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.