It's all the same when you're lonely

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

The world is an orphanage for grownups

I can choose to be unstable.

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.