It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Ronan tightened his grip before leaning over and whispering, "Do you have any idea how much I want you?

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.