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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.
The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.
Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.
There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.
We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.
I love tag team wrestling, and it's different than all the other matches.
I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.
A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.