It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

That which shrinks must first expand.

Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

Music should never be harmless.

[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.