The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.