Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings.

We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live.

Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.