Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.