If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Love is an act of faith.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.