If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

For every sacrifice, there is an expectation of reward.