It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow

The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

Every year as you grow older it is your duty to add more years of wisdom. This wisdom may come in many ways. Use it to the best of your abilities

Even more than a heart, hope was a necessary traveling companion.

When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.