The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Expect it, believe it, trust yourself and the process, and allow it to come to you.

People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!