If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

When we don’t see the value of a thing, we don’t put the protective edge.

How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

I feel like I become somebody else when I do the pictures. I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into somebody different.

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.