Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

To feel the joy of life, welcome everyone with a smile.

Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will.

Monk is helper who to help us in spiritual way.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.