All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance

Inventions are smarter than their inventors

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

‎People who talk less frequently notice more.

I walk around with a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen all the time.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.