Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it.