"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another."

“Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.”

“Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.”

Source : “Sami Gayle” by By Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2013.

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”

Source : Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House prologue (1975)

“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.80, 谷月社

“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.”

“A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.”

“arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”