💬 Quotes

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

"People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell people that they are fat or that they are ugly."

"I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies."

"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living, and they want to think that those who have died are still there, watching them."

"I am going to prove that I am not stupid. I am going to pass my A-level Maths. And I am going to go to university. And I am going to be a scientist."

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy."

"You can't depend on anyone else to do it for you."

"Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time, but that doesn't mean you just sit back and wait for it to happen."

"I’m not saying it’s not your fault, but you’re a kid. You’re not supposed to be able to fix everything."

"When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up."

"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland."

"Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once, says Einmal ist keinmal, might as well not have happened at all."

"The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become."

"There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold."

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

"The heart of the kitsch is the denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative senses of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence."

"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

"He is half of my soul, as the poets say."

"Name one hero who was happy."