Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.
Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.
The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration.
Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.