They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

Simple is the only way I can write.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I think that I've been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer.

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.