It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

You get a clearer picture of what your life should be like in the place of solitude.

In times of difficulty, take time out and seek support and encouragement.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. "This is so much better than a net drama.

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

Nothing cures like time and love.

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.