You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. |

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. |

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. |

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it. |

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. |

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. |

The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false. |

You are what you leave behind. |

I will learn by screwing up. |

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. |

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. |

A good logo provides the pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning. |

Now that we’ve agreed designers should code, can we also agree designers should know how to write? |

Teamwork might work in building an amish barn, but it can't create a big idea. |

Most people work at keeping their job rather than doing a good job. |

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. |

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. |

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. |

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. |

Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. |

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. |

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn. |

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. |

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. |