Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.