Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.