If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.