In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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'.

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.