I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Do you think they're going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?" I scoffed when he twirled me back into his emb

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.

Long jesting was never good.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically.