Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray

Pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure

Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account".

People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don’t Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking.

She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter

I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.

You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. —Jocelyn Lawson

I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.

Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.

I am too real not to know that real will kill me I am too street not to know what the streets hold for me

Once i began to read I began to exist

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.

History is written by the victors.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

The work of memory collapses time.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.