My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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'.

The product of your life depends on your choices

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.

Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.