Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

It was a night where the rogue drow felt tiny, and yet grand, a part of something ancient, eternal, and as vast as his imagination and as warm as the love among these five freinds surrounding him ...

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?