It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.