“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”

“I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.”

“To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something”

“Venice invites moral surrender not with a playful wink, but with the understanding that she is and has always been, sluttish under here regal disgues.”

“Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!”

“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.”

“Privilege, always the mark of elitism, is the restriction to a few (either on a financial, a racist or a sexist basis) of what a truly democratic milieu would extend to everyone. Thus wherever a privilege is a legitimate act of respect and consideration, what's required isn't the denial of it to those who already have it but the extension of it to all those who don't. (At this point, it should also be noted, it ceases to be a privilege and becomes what it should be : a human right.)”