Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.