Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.