Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

The only times you say what I'm thinking, it's without any of the sarcasm and therefore the exact opposite of what I mean.

How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again...

I have the body of a GOD

Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.