I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of.

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.