Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

I'm tired of their plastic pony show.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Let me into the darkness again.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.