Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.