Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?

Our abilities to understand, adjust, and change make us wise.

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.