I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.