Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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'.

Know a man by his metaphors.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

The person that works the hardest wins.