Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.