There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

My past is everything I failed to be.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

I played a kid's game, I got to do it at the beach, and I was able to support my family. I consider myself incredibly lucky.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.