The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

I can access emotions very easily.

There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

BIGBANG is the band that i myself am a big fan of

Every band I've come across has read more than I have.

You can never rise above the light you look up to.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.