Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

One only really sees with the heart.

Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

Seth hustled over. “What’s the password?” “Passwords are for sissies,” Warren’s muffled voice responded. “Works for me,” Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

I wish that I was looking into your eyes

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.