I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
If there's a thing I've learned in my life, it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for, don't.
-Cassandra Clare
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw