It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

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'.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.