I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

To each his own reality.

We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.

Womanhood is like flourishing a garden.

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

When companies start out, they figure out a better way to do something, and they're very relevant.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.