I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

I'm a safety - I play free, strong, whatever you ask me to play.

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.