Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.

I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.

Drugs are the gateway drug

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.