A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.