If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

There is nothing wrong with you being tempted, the important thing is that you do not fall for the temptation

A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.

This was hell then

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

With money, who needs friends?

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

You have to have a little faith in people.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Guys are control freaks and hate when other people know what's best for them