High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal$$$ but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Writing is not life$$$ but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not$$$ for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

There is no gain without struggle.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice$$$ I should reply$$$ 'Create silence'.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical$$$ for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion$$$ and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection$$$ without passion$$$ momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic; if it is pulled out I shall die.

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.