It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison