The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

When you realize that just being yourself is okay, that’s when you’ll be able to see yourself.

Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

I've done everything I've done in America with the limitations I have.

There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10 million-plus.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.