The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.

Let your life be joyful, mystical, everlasting blossoms of poetic ecstasy.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Fight global warming! Be cool.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.