One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.