No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

Even when you are lazy and don't have the effort to learn something sit somewhere in public and try to observe the stupid people around you, that would be more than enough learning for the day.

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

You make it sound so simple.” “It is, for the most part. Love is complicated, it can be downright ugly, but with the two of you it can be nothing but beautiful in the end.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.