What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

A true artist is an ugly man.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / 花の色は うつりにけりな いたづらに わが身世にふる ながめせし間に

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night.

The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.