No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead!

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

Time is not kind to everything.