He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.

To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

The theater should always be a safe space.

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.