Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Give me wildflowers instead of your heart, for I’d rather have them wither than the latter.

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.

I'm not a feminist at all.

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

I was really interested in collecting insects.