I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

The moon cannot outshine the sun.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.