The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

In real love you want the other person's good.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Nature is nobody's ally.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.