"Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"My life will be the best illustration of all my work."

"I'm dying and all I hear are insults!"

"Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared...""What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

"Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers."

"You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes."

"at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered."

"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things."

"Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful."

"The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."

"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds."

"It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal."

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark."

"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more."

"Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter"