Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

The more you subtract, the more you add.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

Postpone not your life.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.