I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.