So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.

Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

As I think of myself, so I shall be.

The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.