If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.

Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

I know a con when I see one.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world