Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.