One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.