Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind

Fear of change was a weakness

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

You can waste a whole lifetime Trying to be What you think is expected of you But youll never be free

How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.