Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Your body will produce what your mind believes.

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.