Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Peace is the language we must speak.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.