Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ...

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.

Gold to airy thinness beat.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

Tore up from the floor up. Followed by a big outtie. John Mathew

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.