"When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad."

“Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.”

“I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?”

“I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.”

“My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.”

Source : "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

“I've always loved jazz.”

“The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

“As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.”

“That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.