A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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'.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

You are creating your future with the thoughts, words and choices you are making in the present.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.