Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Destiny is what you make it; otherwise you are at the mercy of fate.

I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.

We all have horrible track records, ” he said. “It’s what leads up to the real thing. It’s what allows you to recognize it when it shows up.

You are God’s holy people.

I wanna hear you say my name when you come. Just so you know who made you feel like this." - Mitch Knox

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages.

I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.