Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

As long as there are teenage girls, there will be boy bands. It's a question of how long it takes them to get their music together to come out.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.