I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'.
I was exiled from my family, homeland, and culture. I thought that was the whole of it. Years into the banishment, I realised that I was exiled to something, as well. What I escaped to was the lonely,...
I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met...
I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, tho...
I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are.
I didn't know then, as I do now, that love's a one-way street. Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give.
I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.
I can’t stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.
I also agree with Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won’t change his mind and can’t change the subject.
How old is he?’ ‘Thirty.’ ‘He looks older.’ ‘They all do. All the Europeans look older and angrier than they really are. It’s a white thing.
How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me.'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn’t your own. Sometimes you’re chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man’s, grown in a different heart, and it takes l...
Happiness is a myth,’ Karla snapped back angrily. ‘It was invented to make us buy things.
Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.
Gli atti più perfidi dei nostri simili colpiscono sempre la parte di noi che desidera amare il mondo. E quando subiamo una violazione, una piccola parte della vergogna che proviamo è quella di apparte...
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil...
Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because h...
Fear and guilt haunt the rich. Despair and humiliation haunt the poor.