You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

If this is a dream, may we never wake up!

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

I'm everything that you're not.

Don't be afraid! Hold my hand and let's jump off that cliff together.

I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.

Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.

Once upon a time, I wish I had sneezed. The end.

Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Then you must be willing to fight," Mircea responded. "Life is not a gift, Raphael; it's a challenge. Rise to it!

I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Democracies are not very stable.

We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is no hope The fifth is at the heart.