She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

Love cares about you. Leadership carries you.

I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

I definitely think the formula to making my character seem sweet is to let him act like a jerk, give him a redeeming moment, and have a sweet song playing over the background when it happens.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.