Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.