Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

Any press is good press.

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow