When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girl...
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.