Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

A nervous silence loosens tongues

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.