a little mental refuge

What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays You’re the pretender What if I say I will never surrender

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Ich lasse mir die Welt nicht bieten

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

As the liquor flowed, stories tumbled out one after another.

Well I’ve had a very bad time…and I’m pretty cynical about everything.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.