We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Win them with your infectious optimism and burning smile.

One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

If you don't take charge of your transition, it is a dark and lonely road

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

I hate crap, I like craftsmanship

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

Life is not easy for any for us.