If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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.

She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.