Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

There is no higher authority.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.