It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
There isn't a formal definition of success.
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.