“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.”
“enjoying life should be of much greater concern than understanding it.”
“Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go? ---------------------------------------- No. Sorry. Since it s a catered thing, at a restaurant, I ll pick you up at- what did you say? I m sorry. I can t do it. ---------------------------------------- You re busy? I just can t do it, I said.”
“That s the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”
“On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.”
“The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the programs just seemed dreamlike and baffling. In one studio show a group of Scandinavian academics watched as one of them poured liquid plastic into a bucket of cold water. It solidified, they pulled it out, handed it around the circle, and, as far as I could tell, intellectualized on its random misshapenness. I phoned home but my wife didn’t answer. It crossed my mind that she might be dead. I panicked. Then it turned out that she wasn’t dead. She had just been at the shops.”
“Never live what you see. Never follow what you know.”
“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts to the silence of the storm of intoxication. Holding on to each other till the roots of our souls have become entwined in the eternal desire of each other. Poem: The Silence of Love”
“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”
“Naten s kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.”
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.”
“What you choose also chooses you.”
“Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.”
“The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.”
“E po, mirupafshim! Po me mbyt trishtimi, nga merzia. Seç kam nje brenge ne shpirt, Makar Aleksejeviç. As vete s e di arsyen. E tille dite paska qene. Mirupafshim!”
“We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people”
“The end must justify the means.”