"When we kiss I see stars and he sees fireworks, which I think means we're in love because if we weren't in love we'd see things like pencils and empty ketchup bottles."

It's not always a bad thing to be broken. When something's broken you get to see what's inside.

"In our lives, we all have three teachers, three friends, and three great loves, but we never know who they are, for they are disguised in the most complex mask the world can form."

"Music conveys emotion in every language in the universe. If it needs words to convey emotion, it is NOT music."

"Everyone attempts suicide at least three times in their lives...and eventually we all succeed."

"A dream is where a wish and a fear meet, and when the wish and the fear are the same thing, we call the dream a nightmare."

---from 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts.

"Love isn't done right unless it hurts."

"Always the shelf, never the book."

"To square the circle is mathematically impossible, but to cube the oblate spheriod is formidable.

"Perfect is imperfect, and imperfection is purity."