Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.