Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*