One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

I am a clown...and I collect moments.

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

If you want to do something... get up and actually do it!

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

I need very little reality.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Sometimes I even work out to 'Glee' songs to keep me going.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.