The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.