No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

Giving up is what kills people.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.

Humanity is my religion

Wish and Wisdom are pals. Wisdom consoles at the fall of Wish and Wish cheers up when Wisdom is at wrong foot!

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.