She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her.

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'.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

To still your mind, first still your tongue.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.