She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

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!

You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you, do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The finest wits have their sediment.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.