Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.

Hard roads are not opened by themselves

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.