There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.