Absence of pain makes anything possible

And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.

We're everywhere, out there, among you

An empty man is full of himself.

Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Markets are conversations.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.