A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.