But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

I'm afraid love is just a word.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

You are the best at life and shine when you just be YOURSELF. Let nobody tell you that you are not capable of doing what you believe in.

It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was perfect. I accepted that where I was in life, was exactly where I was supposed to be.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

We become what we think about.

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

Even in my bravest moment, I am a coward.

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.