Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

I wish to be with you forever, to look upon your face always, to never leave your side.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Things don't go away. They become you.

My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.