Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Be not perfect, be just and kind.

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.