Tough times never last. Tough people do
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.