Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to youFor my returning.

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

More than anything else, your people want you to listen to them.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.