Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking!

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

[ I watched ] Spicoli in Fast Times, which isn't exactly a stoner movie, or The Big Lebowski, which I think is more than a stoner movie or Brad Pitt in True Romance.

The learned are said to have seeing eyes; The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.