People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.