The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.