Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

More than three fourths of all Americans are vitamin D-deficient.

Be true to yourself and don't live your life according to other people's dreams and wants.

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.