A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.