I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?