Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Time is too short in this one life, to be able to do everything, but it definitely is long enough at least to be able to develop the will to do anything & everything...

the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.