I know exactly what I'm doing, but I just can't stop. That's my greatest weakness.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something