A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

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'.

... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

I have never touched Hillary [Clinton] inappropriately.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.