I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things.