The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.