A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must be converted and days must be converted.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

The universe is math on fire.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.