Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Get bored with your past, it's over!

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.