What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce)

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.