A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'