We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Your prayers for others and the universe make a difference!

I hid myself in food.

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.'

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?