Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.