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.

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.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

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

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

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.