The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

I don't like failing at anything.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.