Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

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.

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.

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

The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands.

Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.