... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony & Cleopatra - Shakespeare.

What’s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.