In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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'.

What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.