It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.

You miss every shot you don't take.