We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

The truth is what hurts

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.