I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

merindukanmu adalah indahnya rasa, yang sukar kusembunyikan keresahannya

I will rather walk alone in the light than to live in the dark.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.

I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn’t want to be late.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.