He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

I just don’t know where to go from here, Alex.”“You don’t have to, we can trace our map together.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.