I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.