I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.