My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.

I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

If I loved you, well that's my fault

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard