I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!