"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"

-- Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Friendship Quotes #Death Quotes #Sweet Quotes

“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”
“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”
“Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain”
“If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.”
“If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.”

Source : "Fictional character: He Zhiwu, Cop 223". "Chungking Express", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.”
“Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.”
“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”

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