A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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'.

We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

We need people who will strictly interpret the law and not be promoting an agenda, as is the danger right now with some members of the Supreme Court.

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

I am a foodie. I'm not afraid to say it.

My goal is to be accused of being strident.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.